Have a few hundred bucks lying around? Here's something neat you can do: Send some of your junk to the friggin' Moon.

This is the pitch from Astrobotic Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based spaceflight company that offers cargo space on its prospective lunar lander on a semi-affordable price scale (starting at $460 for a half-inch capsule).

On Wednesday, the company announced a major new step towards this goal by selecting United Launch Alliance (ULA), home of the workhorse Delta and Atlas rocket families, as the launch provider for Astrobotic's flagship Peregrine lunar lander. If all goes to plan, liftoff will take place in 2019, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, which marked the first time humans had set foot on another world.